Word: linda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LINDA SHAWN?Ethel Mannin?Knopf...
With William Morris' not notoriously intelligible verses Authoress Mannin captions the three sections of her novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm...
...changelings in their stead. A strange child from the first?she had golden hair, while all the Shawns were dark?she grows stranger year by year. Shy as a mouse, she yet seems to know what people are thinking of, makes her mother feel a little weird. But for Linda her home, the farm fields and woods are a simple heaven. Only slowly do personal loves come to people...
...Life for Linda becomes fuller, but less heavenly. Her first love Rose, the maid-of-all-work, gets into trouble with some man, goes away. The new maid Hester dislikes Linda, infatuates Stephen, is infatuated herself by David. At an apple-christening, when girls select their lads, Hester openly chooses David, but he turns her down. Jealous, Stephen goes off to Wildwick, on the sea, makes love to Nan, a barmaid there. Linda often goes to Wildwick too. Before she knows it she is in love with Garry, a fisherboy. The outcome of these perturbations is that Stephen marries...
...Married. Linda Watkins, 23, stage and film actress; and Gabriel Lorie Hess, 51, attorney for Will H. Hayes and Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America Inc.; in Chicago...